Really? I’m a person living halfway around the world from Europe, no Germans nor Jews here in any significant numbers. But really? So Nazis polluted the swastika and now all final solutions too?
I checked Wikipedia and there’s a copy of a Nazi document with not a lick of English on it. So “Final solution” is a translated phrase. Can we change it to “Hitler’s genocial thoughts” instead? We get to keep “Final solution” rather than letting the Nazis keep everything they touch, including the English translation of such a common and neutral concept.
Final solution is more useful to the public as a reference to the Holocaust rather than as a generic term. It’s better as a means to indicate a train of thought to be avoided, or an obvious wrong (or at least immoral) answer to a problem that might come up if the situation is left to fester long enough that responders get desperate.
I think of supervillain plots based on situations where the villain has a point, but invents a solution that involves the massacre of a lot of people. Heros have the double responsibility of stopping the villain and addressing the problem in a more measured way… or should. In the MCU, the problem is often left without consideration.
Really? I’m a person living halfway around the world from Europe, no Germans nor Jews here in any significant numbers. But really? So Nazis polluted the swastika and now all final solutions too?
I checked Wikipedia and there’s a copy of a Nazi document with not a lick of English on it. So “Final solution” is a translated phrase. Can we change it to “Hitler’s genocial thoughts” instead? We get to keep “Final solution” rather than letting the Nazis keep everything they touch, including the English translation of such a common and neutral concept.
Final solution is more useful to the public as a reference to the Holocaust rather than as a generic term. It’s better as a means to indicate a train of thought to be avoided, or an obvious wrong (or at least immoral) answer to a problem that might come up if the situation is left to fester long enough that responders get desperate.
I think of supervillain plots based on situations where the villain has a point, but invents a solution that involves the massacre of a lot of people. Heros have the double responsibility of stopping the villain and addressing the problem in a more measured way… or should. In the MCU, the problem is often left without consideration.